The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed that out of 1,842,464 candidates who sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), 1,402,490 failed to achieve a score of 200 out of 400 marks.
The board disclosed these results on Monday, revealing that the number of candidates who fell short of half the possible marks constituted 78% of the total candidates.
Providing a detailed breakdown of the results, JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, stated, “8,401 candidates scored 300 and above; 77,070 scored 250 and above; 439,974 scored 200 and above, while 1,402,490 scored below 200.”
Oloyede further mentioned that the results of 64,624 candidates out of the total 1,904,189 who took the examination were withheld by the board pending investigation.
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